To get started brewing that crisp summer beer or black-as-night porter, you'll first need a specialized brewing container called a mash tun. A mash tun is where a brewer steeps grain with hot water to ...

Any beer enthusiast can get into home brewing, but good equipment is essential. It can mean the difference between an enjoyable end product and one that you pour down the drain. At the heart of any ...

With the craft beer boom galloping around town every which way, a brush with a local brew is inevitable -- whether you're into beer or not. As a beer novice, I wanted to expand my brewing knowledge.

Drinking great-tasting beer is a year-round pastime, more than just a summer grilling companion or what you guzzle during a fall tailgate. But why rely only on your local brewery or bar to satisfy ...

A rolling cart — bought from his friend — holds the equipment where the beer brewing process begins. A converted ice chest serves as the mash tun where the grains go through the first process on the ...

If Doc Brown ever made home-brew beer, he'd make it in something that looked like this, the Synergy Home Beer Brewing System. The all stainless steel setup will let you mash your own hops and barley, ...

We've got our mash tun where we mix all that grain together and make our oatmeal per se. And then we have our boil kettle. With a Brew in a Bag method, you have the boil kettle and then you get your ...

I once likened the Mash Tun—the brewpub in the Alberta Arts District named for the vessel used to convert malted barley’s starches into sugars in a process called mashing—to Cro-Magnon Man on the ...